Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having image pickup sections which output a detection signal to which an exposure adjustment corresponding to a predetermined exposure signal is carried out with respect to incident light at the time of receiving the predetermined exposure signal, communication sections which communicate with the exterior, and a processing section which adds an exposure photometric range in a screen in accordance with a coordinate signal provided by a mouse or the like, and outputs it, and further generates a predetermined exposure signal corresponding to an image signal value within the exposure photometric range, and supplies it to the image pickup section, and outputs an image signal.

Abstract: An image pickup device has an image pickup portion for picking up an image, a communication portion for making communication via a local area network N, and a router portion connected to the communication portion to transmit image information picked up by the image pickup portion via either of the local area network and a wide area network W, wherein connection can be easily made to the Internet, and a communication function using the router portion can be improved.

Abstract: An image pickup device has an image pickup portion which picks up an image, a communication portion which makes communication with a plurality of external devices on a network, a setting portion which receives a signal from each of the plurality of external devices via the communication portion and sets a segment region of image information to be transmitted to the each external device and priority items of process parameters when the image information is transmitted, and a control portion which, upon determining process parameters in accordance with the priority items of the process parameters, transmits image information in the segment region, which is set in units of the each external device from the image information of the image picked up by the image pickup portion, to the each device on the network via the communication portion in correspondence to the determined process parameters.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus has an image pickup section which photographs an image and outputs its image information, a determining section which determines whether or not the image information should undergo a pixel addition processing according to a result of beam measurement, a pixel adding section which, when it is determined that the pixel addition processing should be executed, executes the pixel addition processing upon the image information, and a transmitting section for transmitting the image information which pixels are added to an external unit, wherein, when exposure becomes short, the pixel addition processing is automatically executed even unless user gives any instruction about the pixel addition processing under his determination for each time.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus has an image pickup section which picks up an image and outputs image information, a determining section which makes a determination whether to execute a pixel addition process for the image information in accordance with a result of optical measurement executed from the image information, a pixel addition section which executes the pixel addition process for the image information when the determining section makes a determination for execution of the pixel addition process, and a transmitting section which transmits to the outside the image information to which the pixel addition section has executed pixel addition process. In the event of underexposure, the he image pickup apparatus automatically executes the pixel addition process without requiring a user to make a determination and make an instruction operation each time.

Abstract: A network-connected camera comprising a retrieval message sending unit configured to send a retrieval message that contains the position information of the camera itself over a network at regular intervals, a return message sending unit configured to, upon detecting a retrieval message sent over the network, send a return message containing the position information of the camera itself over the network, and a position information recording unit configured to, upon detecting a retrieval message and a return message sent over the network, record the position information contained in the retrieval message and the return message.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup section which picks up an image, a communication section which transmits the image to an external device, and which receives control information from the external device, and a processing section which, in a state in which the image is displayed on a display screen of the external device, when a predetermined region on the display screen is designated, transmits regional information to the external device via the communication section in order to indicate the predetermined region within the image, and carries out masking processing for the image which is picked up at the image pickup section on the basis of the predetermined region, and setting of the masking processing is easily carried out on a screen of a PC 26 or the like, on a network.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having an image pickup section which picks up an image, a communication section which transmits the image to an external device, and which receives control information from the external device, and a processing section which, in a state in which the image is displayed on a display screen of the external device, when a predetermined region on the display screen is designated, transmits regional information to the external device via the communication section in order to display the predetermined region within the image, and carries out movement detection of the image which is picked up at the image pickup section on the basis of the predetermined region, and regional setting of movement detection is easily possible on a screen of a PC 26, or the like, on a network.